August 31, 2015

Querida familia,

Good luck with school starting everyone! The families here are all getting started, and life is super busy for them. I can only imagine how it is for you guys back home. I got a letter from the youngs the other day, please let them know how nice that was of them and how much I appreciated it. It really made my day a lot better; they're such awesome people!

Time seems to be going so fast right now. I feel like it was P-day yesterday. Great accomplishment of the week, I cut my own hair this morning! Well at least I tried... I got the scissors and tried to follow what I had learned from mom cutting my hair and ended up pretty much looking like Jim Carry from Dumb and Dummer. Luckily Elder Robinson is there to fix the problems I create and helped me buzz my head afterwards. Me and Elder Robinson have been having a lot of fun, we have a pet spider named Rosco outside of the house and he's huge! The spiders here are super aggressive and we feed him cockroaches everynight after we put the bikes away.He's an awesome little guy, I'll try to send pictures when I buy the chord.

I also got unofficially called as the ward pianist/organist last sunday. We are a pretty small ward, so there is no called organist for sacrament meeting. I'm super grateful I get to have that time to play and keep up on my piano a little bit, it's been a good experience so far. I'm going to try and start practicing the organ when I can on P days to start using that in sacrament meeting. I think it brings a little bit nicer feel to the meeting than the piano does.

We should be getting our first baptism next Sunday! I'm so excited for Wesley, he's going to be a great member. He has such a pure heart and is so faithful to the commitments he makes. He also participates a lot in church with the gospel discussions and it makes me so happy to see him progressing. If anything else comes of me serving in this area it will be great, but just teaching Wes has made it all worth it to me.

One of our investigators cancelled with us yesterday out of the blue after he was progressing so well! I was super frustrated, but everyone is allowed to have agency. Sometimes I wish it weren't that way, but in the end it really is a gift. Another of our investigators is moving to houston, so we won't be able to continue with her very much longer. However, there are still more people out there ready to hear the gospel, and we will continue to search for them diligently. I've seen the change it's been making in Wes's life, and I know it can help anyone who will just listen and act on the word to see for themselves the truthfulness of it.

I love you family and hope the best for you all. Have a great week and remember to read and pray every night together! Esta es la cosa mas importante que todos otros, les amo mucho!

Con mucho amor, Elder Jenson